Capistrano is a standalone utility that can also integrate nicely with Rails. You simply provide SwitchTower with a deployment "recipe" that describes your various servers and their roles, and voila! You magically have single-command deployment. It even allows you to roll a bad version out of production and revert back to the previous release. WWW: http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/17 - Roderick van Domburg